Platform:<\/strong> PC<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The original 1982 anthology film Creepshow was an instant cult classic. It paired the directorial clout of horror maven George Romero with five tales of terror penned by Stephen King in his screenwriting debut, all brought to life by effects guru Tom Savini, with everything modelled on the classic EC Comics horror titles of the 1950s.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Conversely, Creepshow<\/em> the video game isn\u2019t worthy of cleaning up the popcorn from a particularly messy midnight madness screening of the original material. Ostensibly based more directly on Greg Nicotero\u2019s recent TV show adaptation for horror streaming platform Shudder, developer PHL Collective \u2013 whose priors include slapdash brand tie-ins Barbie Horse Trails<\/em> and SpongeBob Squarepants: The Patrick Star Game<\/em>, which should be the first warning \u2013 tries to translate the unpredictable nature of each episode into a collection of 3D point-and-click narrative adventures, but ultimately serves up a messy, buggy, boring, short, ill-thought mess that feels unfinished and, worse, packs zero scares.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There are countless head-scratching development decisions to encounter during Creepshow\u2019s<\/em> meagre four hour play time, but let\u2019s kick off with the near total absence of The Creep, the iconic ghoul who frames each episode of the show. The cackling figure is front and centre on the game\u2019s start screens, and occasionally pops up for an audio cameo to mockingly narrate or introduce some of the on-screen events, but is otherwise absent.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Instead, the framing narrative focuses on a group of archetypal \u201880s teens \u2013 nerdy Danny, goth Mel, cheerleader Liz, and jock Jack, investigating a burned down mall where Danny\u2019s father died years before. Separated from the group, Danny encounters reject \u2018horror host\u2019 The Reader, some sort of fortune telling zombie mariachi musician sat in an arcade cabinet, who promises to help him escape the ruined mall if he reads him some stories found in the form of Creepshow comic books.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n That serves as threadbare set-up for the rest of the game which, like the show, comprises two unrelated narratives. Another bizarre decision \u2013 that format works for weekly episodic television, but makes the package here feel almost embarassingly devoid of content. The first story, \u201cMetamorphic Love\u201d, sees fast food worker and amateur entomologist Andrew caring for his soon-to-be-late wife Laura but, unable to deal with her passing, descending into insectoid delusions. The second, \u201cThe Toll Keeper\u201d, follows Father Torosian, a disgraced priest sent to a remote church as penance for some past transgression, but instead of tending to its restoration starts following otherworldly voices promising him vitality and glory \u2014 all in exchange for a few measly souls, of course.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A good point-and-click thrives on its puzzles, yet Creepshow<\/em> offers a paltry and pathetic few in each of its tales…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s spooky potential in both, but it remains almost completely unrealised. Metamorphic Love seems to want to be a horror tinged take on Franz Kafka, but its moments of body horror as Linda\u2019s corpse is slowly corrupted, mutated, and ultimately puppeted by a giant cockroach are undermined by dated visuals. PHL seems to be trying to blend Creepshow\u2019s<\/em> comic book influences with TellTale Games\u2019 well-honed aesthetic, but even TellTale\u2019s earliest, roughest outing looks better than this. The Toll Keeper fares a little better, having a sense of rural, isolated unease that evokes a mix of The Wicker Man<\/em> and Apostle<\/em>, but still lacks and real frights. And while Creepshow<\/em>, in any format, never quite masters the satisfyingly twisted moral comeuppances that Tales From the Crypt<\/em> often excels at, both the \u2018comic\u2019 stories and the framing narrative surrounding Danny and The Reader ultimately just sort of\u2026 stop. You\u2019ll put your pad down thinking \u201cwas that it?\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Across it all, there\u2019s barely any actual game<\/em> here, either. Objectives tell you exactly what to do in what order, and any attempt to deviate or explore the tiny settings of each story offers no reward. A good point-and-click thrives on its puzzles, yet Creepshow<\/em> offers a paltry and pathetic few in each of its tales \u2013 an insect-themed panel sliding one is the most challenging that Andrew faces, although Torosion does have a slightly trickier task of piecing together bible verse clues to open a lockbox. There are hints of other puzzles scattered through, but none can seem to be completed or fully implemented within the game and remain inessential to completing it.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Worst of all though is how broken the game is, functionally, as a piece of software. Tested across two computers it routinely crashed, ultimately to the point of needing to be reinstalled after every play session. When it did deign to run, the game presented numerous glitches including interactive objects not being interactive, collectibles reappearing after picking them up, supporting characters walking \u201coff camera\u201d during cutscenes but then floating around as immaterial models if you followed them, and cutscenes not triggering until the player character walked through a trigger point multiple times.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n About the best that can be said for Creepshow<\/em> is that it has decent voice acting and some good moments of dark humour \u2013 with one actual laugh out loud moment in Metamorphic Love \u2013 but that\u2019s nowhere near enough to salvage this mess. The only scary thing? That someone, somewhere thought this was in an appropriate state to release.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Platform: PC The original 1982 anthology film Creepshow was an instant cult classic. It paired the directorial clout of horror maven George Romero with five tales of terror penned by Stephen King in his screenwriting debut, all brought to life by effects guru Tom Savini, with everything modelled on the classic EC Comics horror titles of the 1950s. 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